A survey of multiple tree visualisation

Received: 22 December 2008 Revised: 3 July 2009 Accepted: 23 July 2009 Abstract This article summarises the current state of research into multiple tree visualisations. It discusses the spectrum of current representation techniques used on single trees, pairs of trees and finally multiple trees, in order to identify which representations are best suited to particular tasks and to find gaps in the representation space, in which opportunities for future multiple tree visualisation research may exist. The application areas from where multiple tree data are derived are enumerated, and the distinct structures that multiple trees make in combination with each other and the effect on subsequent approaches to their visualisation are discussed, along with the basic high-level goals of existing multiple tree visualisations. Information Visualization advance online publication, 5 November 2009; doi:10.1057/ivs.2009.29